Recording player

The recording player has the same look and feel as your Collaborate session. There is a Recording menu similar to the Session menu in your live sessions and recording playback controls.

The recording player is an HTML5 player. It is only available in Session Administrator System (SAS) , Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI), and Blackboard Collaborate ULTRA building block users at this time.

Recording menu: Open the Recording menu at the top left of your screen. From here you can download the full recording, download caption transcripts, download chat transcripts, get extra help, or report an issue if you are having trouble with the recording.

Captions: Captions are available if they are added later by a moderator or live closed captioning is used during the session. Closed captions are on in the recording by default. Select Closed Captions

in the playback controls to turn off the captions or adjust the size of the caption font.

You can also download a transcript for the captions from the Recording menu.

Playback controls: The intuitive playback controls allow you to navigate through the recording the way you want.

Pause: With your keyboard, press the Spacebar to pause and play the recording.

Repeat/Forward: With your keyboard, press the Left and Right arrow keys to repeat or skip the recording by 10 seconds.

Progress: Slide the marker on the progress bar to move through the recording. With a keyboard press Shift + Left arrow or Shift + Right arrow to repeat or skip the recording by 10 seconds.

Volume: With your keyboard, press the Up and Down arrow keys to increase and decrease the volume by 5%.

Closed captions: Select Closed captions

to view the captions with the recordings. You can also download a transcript of the captions from the Recording menu.

Chat messages: Open the Chat panel at the bottom right of your screen to see the complete chat history of the recorded session. To learn more, see Chat messages in recordings.

Don't worry, we'll walk you through it. When you first open the recording player we'll show you where everything you need is.

Add captions to your recordings

Add captions to your videos to engage all learners. Captioning video creates accessible content for individuals who are deaf or hearing impaired. Captions can help all students consume the video content. The uses for captions are limitless.

Examples

Anyone working in a noisy environment can read captions.

Non-native speakers can read captions in their own language.

Students learning to read can follow along with the speaker.

Students can see the spelling of terms that will be on a test.

Anyone can search the session for key terms.

You can upload Video Text Tracks (VTT) caption and SubRip Subtitle (SRT) files to add or replace captions in recordings.